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3. Official Netscape JavaScript 1.2 Programmer's Reference - Peter Kent -- sounds silly today, but a must read for any newbie web developer. What's really cool is that it is a good introduction to object oriented programming, and most of the book (even though it's 1.2) is still relevant today -- though there are some archaiac NS4.0 and prior references there...

For Javascript, I'd have to recommend "Javascript: The definitive guide", ISBN: 0-596-00048-0 published by O'REILLY (mine is the fourth edition). Other than there being a fifth edition as an update, i really can't imagine there being a better book on Javascript.

Another book I'm waiting to be delivered right now (hopefully it'll come tomorrow) is "Database Design for Mere Mortals", ISBN: 0-201-75284-0 publishes by Addison Wesley. I tried learning relational design from the web and built a database based on what I had learned, but no matter how I tried, I couldn't get it to normalise in a sensible way like all the examples showed. The massive gap between the simplistic theory in the articles I read and the complex reality of the database I was designing didn't help at all. So I just thought it best to buy a book to take me through everything so i can apply the theory I learn to complex real world needs.